Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dissident creditors over rescue plans. A group of bond owners (estimated holdings: $200 million) led by New York City Investor Martin Whitman is proposing to spin off Public Service's share in Seabrook into a separate company, thus leaving the utility less encumbered by debt. Losing Seabrook, however, is anathema to the utility, which still hopes to reap the hefty return that an operating nuclear plant can deliver. Public Service's Harrison proposes to restructure the debt, slash the utility's costs and raise electric rates by 15%. Rather than adopt the dissident plan as it stands now, Harrison claims...
...views from both American and Caribbean scholars with the overwhelming emphasis being on liberal to centrist academic writings. Ironically, the most important required text was by Eric Williams, the late, conservative Prime Minister of Trinidad, supplemented by an historical work by V.S. Nainaul, a political reactionary who is anathema to the Caribbean left. Only one of the required works was by a socialist, an English scholar who bent over backward to be fair...
...capitalize them, inset them in outline form; be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top, "Illustrate"; "Be specific"; etc. They mean it. The illustrations needn't of course be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered through your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume ever wrote; don't just say "Medieval cathedrals"--name nine. Think of a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like...
This Virginian view of a powerful national government was anathema to many of the delegates. The Articles of Confederation had promised that "Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence." Indeed, when the delegates from tiny Delaware had presented their credentials on opening day, they announced that their state legislature had expressly forbidden them to accept any change in the system by which each state had one vote in Congress. Delegate George Read had asked the legislature to impose that restriction because, as he wrote to a colleague, "such is my jealousy of most of the larger States that...
Behind the bland, avuncular exterior, Segovia was a man of strong feelings. The electric guitar, of course, was anathema, and he denounced rock music as a "strange, terrible and dangerous disease." He often compared the guitar to a woman and boasted of his fidelity, yet he married three times. Nor was he so self-effacing as his calm demeanor and, late in life, his sometimes indifferent performances suggested. Given the guitar's limited repertoire, Segovia felt no compunction about arranging and reworking music for other instruments. "The composer has to work through me," he said. Indefatigable, he practiced five hours...